The Mental Health Evolution

The Mental Health Evolution A Mental Health Podcast
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This week Rachel steps away from the interview format to take stock of everything the podcast has surfaced over the last...
09/10/2026

This week Rachel steps away from the interview format to take stock of everything the podcast has surfaced over the last year — and to make the case for advocacy. The rules of the game are changing in mental health. Most clinicians don't know it yet. But clinicians have expertise and credibility that money alone can't produce.

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09/04/2026

Some of these companies spend $3 million a month on advertising. We are not going to outspend them. But we can outorganize them. Nicole Sartini of on why collective power is the only real answer — and why standing firm in your love is still love.

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Nicole Sartini of joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast to talk about what happens when providers stop w...
09/03/2026

Nicole Sartini of joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast to talk about what happens when providers stop waiting for the system to change and start building collective power to change it themselves. The Mental Health Insurance Reform Task Force is now active in all 50 states — and they want you involved.

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08/29/2026

My dog gets better healthcare than my patients. Joanne Frederick on what pet insurance taught her about everything that's wrong with how we administer human healthcare — and what a simpler model could look like.

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08/28/2026

Managed care came along in the 90s with a promise — better preventive care, a more coordinated system. Joanne Frederick on how it became a beast that's outgrown its usefulness and why nobody actually enjoys navigating the healthcare system as it runs today.

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08/27/2026

Providers who don't take Medicaid or work with military families aren't always opting out because they don't want to. They're opting out because the administrative burden is too high. Joanne Frederick on the industrial complex we've built around healthcare administration — and why it's time for it to go away.

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Joanne Frederick joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast to talk about what 30 years inside government heal...
08/27/2026

Joanne Frederick joined Rachel on The Mental Health Evolution Podcast to talk about what 30 years inside government healthcare procurement teaches you about the CAQH rebrand, credentialing delays, and what good oversight actually looks like — and what it doesn't.

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08/21/2026

A pandemic. The murder of George Floyd. A school shooting. The assassination of a state legislator. Operation Metro Surge. Minnesota has experienced wave after wave of collective trauma — and NAMI Minnesota saw it in real time: a 4,000 percent increase in social media engagement and helpline calls through the roof.

In this clip from The Mental Health Evolution Podcast, Rachel speaks with Marcus Schmit, Executive Director of , about what that moment revealed about the need for mental health information and support — and how it is reshaping the organization's work.

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08/20/2026

Everybody has been exposed to this. And everybody is gravitating toward something positive and productive and actionable — because we are all tired of feeling this way.

In this clip from The Mental Health Evolution Podcast, Rachel speaks with Marcus Schmit, Executive Director of , about the community momentum building around mental health in his state. Employers stepping up. Sports teams stepping up. Neighbors checking in on neighbors. A silver lining emerging from a very difficult stretch.

The Medicaid funding cuts making headlines are not an abstract policy debate. For NAMI Minnesota and the providers they ...
08/20/2026

The Medicaid funding cuts making headlines are not an abstract policy debate. For NAMI Minnesota and the providers they support, they are a direct and immediate threat to the services that millions of people depend on every day.

In this episode, Rachel speaks with Marcus Schmit, Executive Director of , about what is actually happening on the ground — and why pessimism is not a strategy. Marcus talks about the federal funding freeze, what happens when providers lose Medicaid reimbursement overnight, and what Minnesota is doing to build a community-wide response to collective trauma that is bringing employers, funders, and neighbors together around mental health in ways that feel genuinely new.

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